Introduction
Part I King Lear and the Age of Shakespeare
Prologue
Chapter 1 Lear’s “darker purpose”
Chapter 2 Resistance of Cordelia
Chapter 3 Edmund, Goneril, Regan
Chapter 4 Lear as a Ward of his Daughters
Chapter 5 Lear’s One Hundred Knights
Chapter 6 The “good pity” of Lear, Gloucester and Edgar
Epilogue
Part II Thomas Middleton, The Revengers Tragedie and Mannerism
Prologue
Chapter 1 The Light in the Darkness of Night—Expression of the Inner World
Chapter 2 The Discrepancy between Man and his Environment
Chapter 3 Realistic Details in the Imaginary Framework
Chapter 4 Distorted Figures and the Disparity between Mind and Body
Chapter 5 Invalid Human Relationships
Chapter 6 Spurio the Bastard—the Figura Serpentinata
Chapter 7 Vindice—Mental Fragmentation
Epilogue
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
